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Movies, tv & music • independent film criticism • soundtrack guides • forming the future • est. 2014, know the cast: ‘the trip’.

The Trip  cast includes Noomi Rapace, Aksel Hennie and Nils Ole Oftebro. This info article contains minor spoilers and character details for Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Netflix movie . Visit the Know the Cast section for more streaming guides.

In The Trip ( I onde dager ), a married couple contemplates murder during a weekend retreat. TV director Lars plans to kills his actress wife Lisa with a hammer, while Lisa intends to “accidentally” shoot her husband in the forest. When three prison escapees infiltrate an idyllic summer home, the protagonists strategize against the horny and psychopathic baddies. Here’s every main player in The Trip , a 2021 black comedy film.

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The Trip Cast: Noomi Rapace as Lisa

Character Profile: A struggling movie actress. She plans to murder her husband during a weekend retreat. Lisa is accused of cheating and uses her performance skills to manipulate three men who threaten her life.

Rapace’s Resume: Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Movie Trilogy (2009-11), Madam Simza Heron in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus (2012), The Settman Siblings in What Happened to Monday (2017), Maria in Lamb (2021)

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The Trip Cast: Aksel Hennie as Lars

Character Profile: Lisa’s husband. He’s a soap opera director and alleged gambling addict. Lars hires a “idiot” handyman to kill Lisa; a passive-aggressive life decision that functions as the film’s inciting incident.

Hennie’s Resume: Max Manus in Max Manus: Man of War (2008), Roger in Headhunters (2011), Alex Vogel in The Martian (2015), Volkov in The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), Lars Ruud in White Wall (2020)

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The Trip Cast: Atle Antonsen as Petter

Character Profile: A prison escapee. He’s the leader of a three-man group who hides out at Lars’ family home. Petter is a notorious serial killer who threatens to sexually assault Lisa.

Antonsen’s Resume: Dag Refsnes in Dag (2010-15), Axel Farstad in Grand Hote l (2016), Toffen Soot in Jul I Blodfjell (2017-19), Børre in Aldri Voksen (2020-), Kong Johan in Kjære landsmenn (2021)

Read More at VV — Know the Cast: ‘Intimacy’

The Trip Cast: Christian Rubeck as Dave

Character Profile: A prison escapee who hides out with Petter. He threatens to sexually assault Lars. Dave was apparently known as “Horse Dick” in prison, but a final act revelation suggests that he might’ve manipulated the truth while intimidating Lars and Lisa.

Rubeck’s Resume: Kolbein Lauring in Max Manus: Man of War (2008), Joe in What Happened to Monday (2017), Werner Heisenberg in Genius (2017), Erik in Doctor Who (2018), Leon Amundsen in Amundsen (2019)

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The Trip Cast: André Eriksen as Roy

Character Profile: A prison escapee who takes a poo in the attic of Lars and Lisa’s vacation home. He’s a neo-Nazi and arguably the most psychopathic member of the group. Roy makes anti-semitic remarks to Lisa before lashing out.

Eriksen’s Resume: Tom in TRIO: Odins Gull (2014), Dørvakt in Lilyhammer (2014), Atle søgård in Hotel Caesar (2015-16), Uno in Black Lake (2018), Ørn in Vikingane (2017-20)

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The Trip Cast: Nils Ole Oftebro as Mikkel

Character Profile: Lars’ father. He’s an old school-type who is easily angered. Mikkel leaves his retirement home to investigate suspicious activity at the family’s summer residence.

Oftebro’s Resume: Terje Ottesen in Borgen skole (1989-90), Viggo Hauge in Hotel Caesar (1999-2009), Frank Mathiesen in Mammon (2014-16), Erkki in Black Lake (2016), Ole Johan in Pørni (2021)

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The Trip Cast: Stig Frode Henriksen as Viktor

Character Profile: A handyman who his hired by Lars to kill and dismember Lisa. He wants a written contract before taking action. Viktor gets angry upon realizing that Lars didn’t reveal the truth about Lisa’s life insurance policy.

Henriksen’s Resume: Roy in Dead Snow (2009), Mute Tracker in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Glenn Kenneth in Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014), Vebjørn in Vikingane (2017-20), Tim in Swingers (2019)

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The Trip Cast: Tor Erik Gunstrøm as Hans

Character Profile: Mikkel’s friend. He makes a late-night phone call to report odd activity at his friend’s summer home.

Gunstrøm’s Resume: Dizzie tunes in Vi spillopper (1979), The Chef in Fomlesen i kattepine (1999), Marianne’s father in Staying Alive (2015).

Read More at VV — Know the Cast: ‘Father of the Bride’

The Trip cast also includes Selome Emnetu ( Okkupert , Stardust ), Galvan Mehidi ( Blank , Latterlig politikk ), Evy Kasseth Røsten ( Dead Snow , The House ) and Harald Dal ( Weekend , Hotel Caesar ).

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• Release Date 5 February 2021
• Language Tamil
• Genre Comedy, Horror, Thriller
• Duration 2h 1min
• Cast Yogi Babu, Karunakaran, Sunaina, Praveen Kumar, Motta Rajendran, Kalloori Vinoth, Nancy Jennifer, Athulya Chandra, Siddhu, VJ Rakesh, Lakshmi Priya, Rajesh Shiva, Mak Mani, Sathish, Neethu
• Director Dennis Manjunath
• Writer Dennis Manjunath
• Cinematography Udhayashankar G.
• Music Siddhu Kumar
• Producer A Viswanathan, E Praveen Kumar
• Production Sai Film Studios
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While traveling in a dense forest, Lidi (Sunainaa), a girl from a group of friends, gets lost in the forest. As her friends try to find her, they face new challenges.

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A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to reconnect, but each has intentions to kill the other. Before they can carry out their plans, unexpected visitors arrive and they face a greater danger.

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Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen star in a mother-son road-trip comedy from director Anne Fletcher ("The Proposal").

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Yentl goes yenta in The Guilt Trip , a creakily old-fashioned comedy that forgot to pack the laughs along with the nudging and kvetching. Possibly the first American film in decades in which characters drive cross-country courtesy of process shots out the back window, this mother-son yakfest blows a gasket and all four tires before it even hits the road. With Seth Rogen in very subdued mode, his fans will smell this one a mile away; it might be a movie only their mothers — or die-hard Barbra Streisand fans — could love.

When was the last time an overbearing Jewish mother giving her schlemiel of a son a hard time about not being married was a major component of a big Hollywood film? This sort of routine used to pop up all the time in American comedy but pretty much has vanished in the rearview mirror since the heyday of Ruth Gordon . So to behold Streisand’s New York mom Joyce Brewster hectoring her homely visiting son Andrew (Rogen) about his myriad personal shortcomings is to revisit a musty mind-set that the minor updates in Dan Fogelman ‘s woeful script can’t begin to freshen up.

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The early scenes of Andrew’s return from California to his childhood home are so embarrassing that you wonder if such impressive consistency can possibly be sustained. Andrew knows what he’s in for, but that still doesn’t help when Mom immediately starts in asking what happened to former girlfriends X, Y and Z, complaining that he went to UCLA just to get as far away from her as possible, pointing out that she hasn’t had a date since her husband’s long-ago death and then recommending that Andrew get therapy. Enough, already.

In an effort to connect with Andrew, Joyce unloads what she considers a bombshell of a secret: She actually had a boyfriend before she met her husband and loved him so much she named her only son after him. Considering it odd she never tried to look him up after his dad died, Andrew does research that reveals he’s an executive in San Francisco. With an ulterior motive in mind, he invites Mom to join him on a drive across the country, during which he’ll make stops in Virginia, Texas, Santa Fe and Las Vegas to hawk a nontoxic cleansing liquid product he has created to potential retailers.

These pitch sessions are desultory affairs — a salesman Andrew is not — and Joyce doesn’t help matters by hovering and carrying on in ways that scarcely help her son’s cause. To save a few bucks, she insists they rent a compact rather than an SUV, forcing them to share very close quarters as they listen to Jeffrey Eugenides ’ gender-bending Middlesex on CD. The way Joyce gets excited about gift shops and free continental breakfasts at motels (where she insists they stay in one room to save more money), you’d think she’d never been out of New York before.

In terms of viewer relief from the constant haranguing, getting on the road held out the hope of changing scenery and a possible parade of lively supporting roles. Instead, we get process shots of the two leads crammed into the tiny car intercut with second unit coverage of highways and the countryside. They do get out of the car to look at the Grand Canyon, but after about five seconds, they decide they’ve seen enough and move on to Vegas, which Joyce actually likes.

The one stop that at least yields something different is at a Texas steakhouse, where anyone who can eat a 4 1/2-pound steak and all the trimmings in one hour gets it for free. Uncharacteristically, Joyce volunteers, launching a gorge-fest that at least presents the half-amusing spectacle of Streisand pigging out and wins Joyce an admirer in the form of a handsome older gent (the indisputably handsome Brett Cullen ) who’d like to have her come up and see him sometime.

The climactic visit to San Francisco to track down Joyce’s former beau predictably plays on, and aims to stimulate, bittersweet emotions. At the same time, the easy-to-get point of the enterprise is to stress that the mother and son’s prolonged time together has forced them to break through their various barriers, grudges and expectations to arrive at a more honest satisfying relationship. Yep, that’ll do the trick every time.

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The Guilt Trip  provides heavy competition with director Anne Fletcher ‘s previous films ( Step Up , 27 Dresses , The Proposal ) as to which is the most formulaic and conventional, but this one takes the cake for being the most visually unimaginative and clunky. Worse, even the most easy-to-please audiences will struggle to find more than a half-dozen laughs here, so bereft is the film of fresh comic ideas.

Rogen — who for some reason sports about a one-day’s grizzle of beard throughout — drastically underplays, probably realizing that, with Streisand emoting so broadly, it was the only way to go. For her part, some combination of cosmetic expertise, cinematic enhancement and natural endowment makes Streisand look more like she’s in her 50s than in her 70s, which is the actuality. Those who’ve always liked the singer-actress probably won’t mind her here; for the nonfan, this is not the film that will change your mind.

A retinue of terrific character actors could have greatly enlivened the proceedings, but Fogelman ( Cars , Bolt , Tangled , Crazy, Stupid, Love ) didn’t write the parts for them.

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Trip also contributed to the creation, planning and production of world-record-breaking stunts, producing live action sports events and producing formatted entertainment television series. Trip co-created (along with megastar Travis Pastrana) and Executive Produced the original MTV series “Nitro Circus.”  This series went on to spawn what has become the largest action sports live stadium tour in the world, also under the Nitro Circus moniker.

After years of Executive Producing TV series', the growing Nitro Circus organization asked Trip to come back as Senior Vice President of Media to expand the brand further into pop culture and TV.  With Trip’s guidance and expertise, he helped create and Executive Produced the “Olympics” for action sports athletes, Nitro World Games.  Nitro World Games is an annual 3-hour live stadium action sports competition that has aired in NBC primetime and streamed on Facebook.

Hand-in-hand, Trip, Travis Pastrana and Nitro Circus also invented a brand new auto racing format, Nitro Rally Cross (NRX).  NRX is becoming a mighty and respected racing circuit within the auto racing industry.  As a final exclamation point on his short time with the Nitro Circus organization, Trip created, sold and Executive Produced a 3-hour live stunt event that has become an instant classic.  “Evel Live” on the History Channel, and distributed worldwide, featured Travis Pastrana breaking 3 of Evel Knievel’s most iconic stunts one after the other all in one night, culminating in Travis jumping the world-famous Caesars Hotel & Casino fountain.  The special stands as 2018’s highest rated cable special and History Channel’s highest rated special since 2011.

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Road Trip (2000)

Four college buddies embark on a road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a female friend.

Filming Locations

Austin, Texas, United States Athens, Georgia, United States Knoxville, Tennessee, United States Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States Nashville, Tennessee, United States Atlanta, Georgia, United States Cumming, Georgia, United States Connecticut, United States Los Angeles, California, United States Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Memphis, Tennessee, United States Georgia, United States United States

Filming Dates

16 October 1999 - 27 December 1999

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Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Paulo Costanzo, DJ Qualls, Tom Green, Rachel Blanchard, Marla Sucharetza, Anthony Rapp, Andy Dick, Fred Ward, Ethan Suplee, Horatio Sanz, Rhoda Griffis, Jessica Cauffiel, Patricia Gaul, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Walsh, Todd Phillips, Mia Amber Davis.

Sheldon Kahn, Peter Teschner

Director of Photography

Original music composer.

Michael Simpson

Nancy Nayor, Ann Goulder

Executive Producers

Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock

Production Design

Clark Hunter

Screenplays

Todd Phillips, Scot Armstrong

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Daniel Goldberg, Joe Medjuck

Set Decoration

Traci Kirshbaum

Art Direction

Costume design.

Peggy Stamper

Script Supervisor

Barbara Tuss

Hairstylist

Joani Yarbrough

Makeup Department Head

Harriette Landau

Production Companies

The Montecito Picture Company, DreamWorks Pictures

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This Underseen Road Trip Horror Movie Fuels a Killer Twist

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The Big Picture

• The Passenger is a road trip crime film that delves deeper than just a surface-level story of violence and escapism.
• The main characters, Benson and Randy, both carry their own traumas and pasts that control their actions.
• This film blends elements of suspense, horror, and character study, offering a unique and thought-provoking journey.

Over the years, Kyle Gallner has quietly turned himself into one of Hollywood's leading scream kings . You may have first met him in the 2009 double horror wallop of The Haunting in Connecticut and Jennifer's Body . He was one of the stars of the much-maligned A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot in 2010, which is so much better than the hate it gets , and lived to sleep another day. In the past few years, he battled Ghostface ( it didn't go so well ) in 2022's Scream and was one of the heroes in Smile .

In 2023, with The Passenger , Gallner didn't battle a man with knives for fingers, a killer in a mask, or some incomprehensible force. Instead, his character, Benson, battles himself following a mass murder spree. After kidnapping a witness along with a timid young man named Randy, played by an equally impressive Johnny Berchtold ( Dog Gone ), the unlikely pair flee the scene of the crime in a road trip film that never leaves the town they're in . It's not the cops they're ultimately running away from, but themselves. By going nowhere, Benson and Randy go everywhere.

The Passenger (2023)

A man is forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past. He must find a way to survive when his co-worker snaps and goes on a violent killing spree.

'The Passenger' Deceives You By Presenting Itself as a Traditional Road Trip Crime Film

If you watch the trailer for The Passenger , you might think you have it all figured out. It focuses mostly on Benson (Kyle Gallner's) with his chilling voice heard throughout and is immersed in violent shots. Without giving more away than what the trailer shows, Benson commits mass murder at a fast food restaurant where he works with Randy ( Johnny Berchtold ). After letting Randy live, we see several other scenes with Benson pointing a gun, and then punching a man repeatedly in a parking lot. Benson and Randy are then in a car driving along barren fields as cop cars fly by blaring their sirens. When Randy asks Benson why he's doing this, his kidnapper tells Randy that he finds him pathetic and it bugs him. He also finds his victim fixable , telling him, "When you were standing there, watching me, waiting for me to kill you, that was the only thing I believed." Benson wants to help Randy for his own good, but he needs him to stay out of his way.

At first glance, The Passenger looks like something we've seen before. Road trip crime movies are almost their own subgenre. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway perfected it in 1967 with Bonnie and Clyde . Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon gave us a more fun, but equally tragic version of this type of story in 1991's Thelma & Louise . Oliver Stone 's Natural Born Killers in 1994 had Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis on the run in a film as bleak as it gets. Just a year before, Lewis was in a similar film with Brad Pitt called Kalifornia .

Kyle Gallner Is Our Modern Scream King

He's been the hero, the villain, and everything in between.

On the surface, The Passenger seems to match its peers : a guy commits a crime, the criminal takes a victim hostage, the criminal flees and commits more crimes. The victim prevails; the end. Sure, some of that is accurate, but The Passenger is so much more than its predecessors. For example, it breaks the mold in a moment of peril when Benson takes Randy hostage and flees. As he's talking about how far away he can get before the cops find the crime scene, the truth is that he never actually leaves the city at all.

Randy Isn't Just a Helpless Passenger to a Madman

One of the trailer taglines for the movie is "Confront your past to survive the present." Read into that, and you'll see that The Passenger goes deeper than a surface-level movie about a violent road trip . Even further to the point, the tagline on the poster is "Ride. Or die." So what does that mean to the audience and the deeper context of the movie?

Berchtold's Randolph "Randy" Bradley is presented as our probable hero , but he's not even the hero of his own life before Benson screws it all up. He is a timid young man, quiet and soft-spoken. He's lived in the same town his entire life, and despite being really smart, has done nothing with his existence . He works in fast food, and while that's fine, we can see that he's capable of so much more. His manager sees it too. He wants Randy to think about being a manager at another location, and although that seems doable enough, for someone like Randy, we can tell that this is nearly impossible for him to comprehend.

Randy is meek because of his past. He did something bad as a child, and unable to move past the guilt that plays the event in his head relentlessly, he lets that trauma consume him . It's not hard to see that The Passenger has a double meaning . When Randy is bullied at work, causing another quiet co-worker, Benson, to snap and shoot everyone dead, he becomes an actual passenger to his hostage taker. However, the deeper context of Randy's character is that he was already a passenger to his mind. If he doesn't learn from the past, take hold of the wheel of his life, and stop being a passenger, he will die.

Benson Isn't Your Typical Killer in Control in 'The Passenger'

That's already clever enough, and though Randy is timid and not a take-charge type, we root for him, especially as we learn what happened in his past. Beneath that pain is a good person struggling to be set free. The Passenger could have just settled for that and made Benson a cookie-cutter bad guy who forces Randy to take charge of his life and save himself , but there is so much more going on than that. Benson has his pain too. He's not a simple stereotype, but another person controlled by his trauma. He's also a passenger but in a different way. Whereas Randy goes inward, Benson lashes out.

The road trip Benson and Randy take isn't what you're used to. It's not about a flight from a scene, being chased down by the police. It's about a flight from the past as it screams toward you, nipping at your heels. That doesn't mean The Passenge r is only a character study where the road trip is in one's mind. There is much violence to be found. Blood is shed. People die. The cinematography is so grim and Benson is so scary in his actions that The Passenger borders on being a horror film .

The Passenger is everything you've come to expect from the genre but blended and served up in a way you've never tasted. The flight from the past can be more chaotic and suspenseful than any of the typical police chases or two characters driving off a cliff. Viewers can certainly go into it with expectations but be prepared to be a passenger for a ride that makes you think as much as it makes you clench your seat.

The Passenger is available to watch on Amazon Prime.

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